There are more changes I’m still working on, but I just can’t wait to show you this huge update I’ve made to leethalknits.com! First, brand new home page:
Above is a screenshot on my big monitor, and below is in a smaller browser window – some of the background photos on the left may overlap too much on your screen, so just hit refresh to see a new photo if you can’t read things.
And now I’ll list all the new things…
Down there at the bottom right you can see that I’m starting a leethal knits mailing list! I’ll only be using it when I release a new pattern (or have some other big exciting news I suppose, but it’ll mostly just be pattern releases), and I’ll basically just link to the blog post for the pattern release, so it’s meant for if you want to be sure to learn about new patterns… I know how hard it is to keep up with blogs these days! (Sign up on the home page.)
New navigation! My patterns were outgrowing my old system, so now you can link from the home page to pages with all head accessories, all neck accessories, all hand/wrist accessories, all other accessories, and all quick knits, so that covers everything, plus I’ve put patterns in multiple accessory categories if they apply (like Game Knitting, Flying V’s, Haka). So you can find everything that way if you want to browse by pattern type…
…and I’ve also majorly updated my all patterns page, so that’s a more convenient way to browse as well. Now, not only are there the thumbnails for every pattern all on one page, but there’s also an alphabetical list of every accessory pattern down the side, plus links to all collections, solo patterns, free patterns, quick knits, all head, all neck, etc… so you can reach everything from this page (linked at the top of the home page).
New faq page! I’ve written up lots of questions + answers that I get from knitters, and/or that I see people saying, wondering, etc, in forums and stuff like that, or just that I want to say an answer for just in case anyone is wondering… it’s a wide variety of things, from “Something is weird with my knitting, this isn’t looking how it should, what am I doing wrong?” to “Can I test knit your patterns?” to “Did you get my email?” to “Where did you get your glasses?”. That last one is literally the most frequently asked question :-p
Also, update to my info page. I’ve added some fun new feedback quotes (they are all taken from ravelry project page notes, so I hope no one minds me quoting them!) – my personal favorite is “the pattern is wicked clevah” -Jennifer in Massachusetts. The other thing there that I’m really excited about is that I made a huge update to my list of shops that carry my patterns – I tripled it, since becoming distributed by Deep South Fibers, hooray!!
Those are the major changes. I made a bunch of minor formatting changes as well… Then, after uploading the update, I checked in with netrenderer to make sure everything looks fine in Internet Explorer, and I learned that I have some major font issues. So, if you’re viewing the site on IE, things won’t quite look how they look above (at least as I’m writing this on Wednesday night). I think it works fine on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, iOS. Anyway, I figured out what the problem was, and it is requiring a huge amount of behind-the-scenes code work to fix it, but it’s for the best since it was a result of sloppy coding decisions in the first place, and now I’m forced to fix things. I’m hoping to finish tonight, so probably by the time you’re reading this it’ll be fixed! The main reason I’m telling you is, well two things, first because all the coding changes I’m making are causing the site layout to change slightly, so the screenshots above aren’t going to exactly match what you see, and more importantly, since I’m making all these changes to every page of the whole site, there’s a chance I might miss something. So if you notice anything weird, especially any text that looks really wrong, please let me know! Thanks, all!
And besides all this, I’ll actually have another big website update happening within the next few days – new technique tutorials! So I’ll blog about that when it’s done, because I’m excited about some stuff I’ve been working on for that 🙂 (I’ll give you a hint… I just got an iPhone, and it has really good video quality!) So, I hope you have fun browsing the site for now, and remember to sign up for the mailing list if you like mailing lists, and I’ll drop in here again very soon!
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